Election Reflection ©2016 Susan Noyes Anderson Donald J. Trump, too often a chump. Both his hair and his skin are a trifle ...

The Humble Pundit ©2016 Susan Noyes Anderson The world does not depend on me, I know. I am no expert here, no talking head. M...

Lately I find myself almost unwilling to turn on the news. When I overcome this aversion and flip it on anyway, I often end up wishin...

Glory Days: A 4th of July Poem ©2014 Susan Noyes Anderson Declaration of Independence. Pilgrims' feet, well-planted. Herit...

From what I've heard, read and experienced, this election brought some disturbance in the force for many people in our country––creating...

My hope for today is that every vote counted (for either candidate) will be an honest one, cast by a registered, living-and-breathing ci...

Pardon me while I wax pedantic... ;) Tess has given us an interesting prompt this week, and my response is an admittedly heavy-handed ...

Remember Congress singing God Bless America on the steps of the Capitol? Can you tell the Democrats from the Republicans? The Indep...

I think we are all familiar, as Americans, with the phrase " E pluribus unum ," meaning " out of many, one." In ...

I rarely get political here, and that's not my intention today either. I suspect my readership is about evenly comprised of liberals and...

I don't like it. And I wouldn't like it with Romney either. Or George Washington, for that matter. Red state or blue state, this is ...

“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.” – Abraham Lincoln If Mr. Lincoln were alive today, I...

Yesterday, my post was a poem about the humility and teachability of children. This picture of my grandson and his " I can be honest ...

My husband is home from work today, so I need to be quick about this, but I do have something on my mind that I thought might be worth a par...

Yesterday I was talking with a few members of my family, and we were lamenting the fact that we don't have one viable candidate we can f...

I am weary of the wholesale vitriol that dominates the public arena today. In the past couple of years, I have gone from a person who love...